Escape-Title

When a node title is referenced elsewhere, it is HTML escaped by default. You can override this behavior by setting the Escape-Title header to false.

You can see the difference in the two nodes below. They both use the HTML entities “ and ” in their Title tags.

Escape-Title: true (“escaped”)

Escape-Title: false (“not escaped”)

The node with the default setting of Escape-Title set to true HTML escapes the title. The node that sets Escape-Title to false bypasses the HTML escaping, allowing the original HTML entities to come through.

Escaping is on by default for a reason. HTML escaping of the title makes it impossible to accidentally break the HTML structure of the page by adding a special HTML character into the Title value. However, if you know that you need to embed an HTML entity in a node title, it is still possible to disable the automatic HTML escaping.

The usual node header inheritance rules still apply. If you need to disable HTML escaping for a node, but still want to leave it enabled for its child nodes, you can always add the following set of headers to achieve this:

Escape-Title: false
+Escape-Title: true

Tags: headers